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  2. Goleta Cultural School - Wikipedia

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    Following their mastery of square dancing, the Otas began ballroom dance training at the local Arthur Murray Dance Studio. From there, progressed to higher levels of instruction, which involved commuting to Los Angeles for lessons from a new group of English instructors teaching International Style .

  3. Cross-step waltz - Wikipedia

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    At the same time, ballroom dancers in England and the United States developed their own slow waltz variations, but commencing with the Lead's left foot. [10] This gave the cross-step (the "Twinkle" in American slow waltz) a different musical dynamic and momentum from the French Valse Boston, which began with the Lead's right foot.

  4. Ballroom dance - Wikipedia

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    Vernon and Irene Castle, early ballroom dance pioneers, c. 1910 –18. Modern ballroom dance has its roots early in the 20th century, when several different things happened more or less at the same time. The first was a movement away from the sequence dances towards dances where the couples moved independently.

  5. Natural spin turn - Wikipedia

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    The natural spin turn is a ballroom dance step used in the waltz.It is typically used to advance a couple 5 ⁄ 4 of a turn down line of dance, although an underturned spin turn is also very useful for turning a corner.

  6. 'Dancing With the Stars' brings Latin rhythms to the ballroom ...

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    Ballroom dance: Viennese waltz. Ballroom song: “Gravity” by John Mayer. Ballroom score: Carrie Ann 9, Derek 9, Bruno 9. Latin dance: Salsa. Latin dance song: “I Like It” by Cardi B, Bad ...

  7. International standard waltz - Wikipedia

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    Like all Standard category dances, waltz is a progressive dance, meaning that dancers travel along a path known as the line of dance, that is counter-clockwise around the floor. It is characterized by pendulum swing movements and incorporates general elements of ballroom technique such as foot parallelism, rise and fall, contra body movement ...

  8. An American Ballroom Companion - Wikipedia

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    An American Ballroom Companion is an online collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress related to the period of cca. 1490--1920. Along with social dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, information about theatrical dance.

  9. Telemark (waltz) - Wikipedia

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    The Telemark is a ballroom dance step; in waltz competition, it is in the Silver syllabus. Telemarks are reverse turns where the follower (the lady) does a heel turn as the leader (the man) travels around her. There are similar Telemarks in foxtrot and quickstep. [1]